| aug 09 2006 | | Compensating. | I guess we all know someone, or have come across people who are compensating. It is a medical term for anyone who has a psychological problem but is able to function day-to-day by consciously over-riding it. These are the people we interact with who are decidedly loopy and make us react with the phrase “there are more out than in”.
The severity of their problem and the way they cope will cover the whole spectrum of experience. You wonder how they ever get through a day. Of course it is impossible to distinguish between the truly eccentric and the just plain quirky.
At some point there is the risk that the compensating behaviour will fail causing a breakdown. In the meantime there are more and more people walking around socially interacting in a dysfunctional manner. Funny old world ain’t it?
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